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The superintendent, students and faculty were visibly upset at a prayer vigil they held this morning after three students were shocked by a live power line around 3:40 p.m. Wednesday.

School officials said the students and their track coach were rolling in a portable field goal when the field goal and power line collided.

“One of the students went into cardiac arrest on the field,” Vestavia Hills City Schools spokesperson Whit McGhee said.

They say that student was successfully revived after receiving CPR and treatment from a portable defibrillator.

“We have coaches, athletic trainers, school resource officers and students who witnessed the accident and responded immediately, and more appropriately than anyone could have planned for,” Phillips said. “Because of their actions they became heroes yesterday.”

As students await their classmates’ return -- they're leaving hopes and well-wishes on one of the student's trucks.

Alabama Power released a statement from their investigation into what happened. Spokesman Ike Pigott said in part: "A lot of you have had questions about the particulars - the pole, the wire, where everything was - and what we can tell you from our initial findings is that the wire was not on the ground, was properly connected to the pole, and not hanging low."

The school system did not make coaches or others that witnessed the event available for comment.